What is Gradle in Android Studio?

Short Answer Gradle is a build system. Long Answer Before Android Studio you were using Eclipse for your development purposes, and, chances are, you didn’t know how to build your Android APK without Eclipse. You can do this on the command line, but you have to learn what each tool (dx and AAPT) does in the SDK. Eclipse saved us all … Read more

ADB.exe is obsolete and has serious performance problems

I am using Windows 10 and when I launch the Virtual Device Emulator in Android Studio I keep getting the message which reads: “The ADB binary at C:\Users\siviw\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe is obsolete and has serious performance problems with the Android Emulator. Please update to a newer version to get significantly faster app / file transfer”. I am … Read more